Johannes Hengstschläger

Johannes Hengstschläger (born July 15, 1940 in Lichtenberg ) is an Austrian lawyer and emeritus university professor . From 1991 to 1996 he was rector of the Johannes Kepler University Linz .

Life

Hengstschläger passed the Matura at the Federal Teachers' Training Institute in Linz in 1960 and passed the teaching qualification test for elementary schools in 1962 and the teaching qualification test for secondary schools in the subjects of mathematics, performing geometry and art education in 1966 . Until 1971 he worked as a teacher at elementary and secondary schools in the area of ​​the regional school board for Upper Austria and studied law at the University of Linz from 1966 to 1970 . In 1970 he received his doctorate.

He subsequently entered the service of the University of Linz and worked until 1978 as an assistant at the Institute for Public Law and Political Science and as a lecturer in public law at the University of Linz. In 1975 he was a lecturer at the University of Padua for the history of political theory. In 1977 he completed his habilitation in constitutional and administrative law at the Law Faculty of the University of Linz. After Hengstschläger had been appointed associate professor for constitutional and administrative law at the University of Linz on October 1st, 1978, he took over the position of director of the Institute for Constitutional Law and Political Science in January 1980 . 1981 followed his appointment as head of the Department for Constitutional and State finance law at the Institute of Constitutional Law and Political Sciences, 1988 he was appointed Professor of Public Law with special focus on financial law. After his election as Dean of the Law Faculty of the Johannes Kepler University in June 1989 was elected Hengstschläger in May 1990 as rector of the Johannes Kepler University. He held the post of rector until 1996. In addition, from June 1991 he was a board member of the Austrian Rectors 'Conference and from 1993 to 1995 chairman of the Austrian Rectors' Conference. In 1993 he became an honorary member of the Catholic student association KaV Austro-Danubia Linz in the ÖCV . From March 1995 he was also a full member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 2004, Hengstschläger was nominated as President of the Audit Office by the ÖVP. From 2008 he was head of the Institute for Constitutional Law and Political Science.

Awards

• Theodor Körner Prize (1975)
• Leopold Kunschak Prize (1978)
• Gold Medal of Honor of the Province of Upper Austria (1995)
• Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (1997)
• Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art (2002)

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Hengstschläger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae on the JKU website
• ots.at Biography of Johannes Hengstschläger